Workshop 8-10 October 2004

Programme

8 October
Morning session (9:30 – 13.00)

9.30 – 10.00:
Opening of the workshop
Diana Mishkova on the “We the People” project and the workshop proceeding

10.00 – 10.30:
Keynote speech
Ivan Denes: “Rethinking Liberty and the Search for Identity”

10.30 – 10.50:
Alexander Vezenkov: “We, the Ottomans! Inventing, Promoting and Translating Ottomanism (1830s-1870s)”

10.50 - 11.10:
Discussion

11.10 – 11.40:
Coffee-break

11.40 – 12.00:
Bojan Aleksov: “Identity Options among Serbs in Nineteenth Century Hungary”

12.00 – 12.20:
Discussion

12.20 – 12.40:
Bulent Bilmez: “SAMI FRASHËRI or ŞEMSEDDİN SAMİ? The Texts of an Ottoman Intellectual Contributing to both Turkish and Albanian Nationalisms and the Texts on His Contradicting Images in the Historiographies of Modern Turkey and Albania”

12.40 – 13.00:
Discussion

Afternoon session (14.30 – 17.30)

14.30 – 15.00:
Keynote speech
Henrik Stenius: "’Peopler’ - the Finnish concept of citizen".

15.00 – 15.20:
Kinga-Koretta Sata: “Hungarian and Romanian National Liberalism in the 19th Century”

15.20 – 15.40:
Discussion

15.40 – 16.00:
Dessislava Lilova: “The Barbarians, The Civilized and the Bulgarians: Definitions of Identity in Textbooks and the Press from the Period under Ottoman Rule”

16.00 – 16.20:
Discussion

16.20 – 16.50:
Coffee-break

16.50 – 17.10:
Todor Hristov: “Ambiguous voices: Some 19th century methods for making the Bulgarian people speak”

17.10 – 17.30:
Discussion

9 October
Morning session (9.30 – 13.00)

9.30 – 10.00:
Keynote speech
Matthias Middell: “Cultural Transfer and Transnational History as Approaches to European or Global History”

10.00 – 10.20:
Tchavdar Marinov: “Between Political Autonomism and Ethnic Nationalism: Competing Constructions of Modern Macedonian National Ideology (From the 1870s unill the Balkan Wars)”

10.20 – 10.40:
Discussion

10.40 - 11.10:
Coffee-break

11.10 – 11.30:
Levente Szabo: “Narrating the People. Folklore and Nation-Formation in Hungarian and Romanian Context”

11.30 – 11.50:
Discussion

11.50 – 12.10:
Stefan Detchev: “Who are the Bulgarians? – Ethnogenesis, “Race”, Science and Politics in fin-de siecle Bulgaria”

12.10 – 12.30:
Discussion

14.00 – 14.20:
Alexandra Nacu: “Understandings of “the social” and “the national” in Romania 1848-1940”

14.20 – 14.40:
Discussion

14.40 – 15.00:
Artan Puto: “The idea of nation among Albanians during the National Movement (1878-1912) and the Period of Independence (1912-1939)”

15.00 – 15.20:
Discussion

15.20 – 15.50:
Coffee-break

15.50 – 16.10:
Bojan Mitrovic: “The Affirmation of the Modern Historical Discipline in Serbia and Bulgaria (1878 – 1918): Conditions, Development and Social Role”

16.10 – 16.30:
Discussion

16.30 – 16.50:
Calin Cotoi: "Anthropogeography and the creation of the national space in interwar Romania"

16.50 – 17.10:
Discussion

10 October
Morning session (9.30 – 12.30)

9.30 – 10.00:
Franziska Metzger: “The Memory of Nation and Religion. The Competitive Construction of National and Religious Identities and Communicative Communities in 19th Century Switzerland”

10.00 – 10.20:
Stilyan Deyanov: “The philosophical discourse on “Europe” in the East – Constantin Noica and Yanko Yanev”

10.20 – 10.40:
Discussion

10.40 – 11.10:
Coffee-break

11.10 – 11.30:
Balázs Trencsényi: “The Terror of History –The Debates on National Character in Inter-War Eastern-Europe”

11.30 – 11.50:
Discussion

11.50 – 12.30:
Diana Mishkova on the results of the workshop and the up-coming “We, the People” events